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First nations people of Australia are yet to have their sovereign status recognized through the signing of a treaty (the only colonized land in the world yet to do so). The true ‘owners’ of the continent of Australia, are doing their best to survive a genocide that is led by a Government that has absolutely no jurisdiction to permeate laws on behalf of the sovereign people. #indigenous#decolonize#genocide#firstnations#racism#colonization#aboriginal#australia

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from @hlumumba - First nations people of Australia are yet to have their sovereign status recognized through the signing of a treaty (the only colonized land in the world yet to do so). The true ‘owners’ of the continent of Australia, are doing their best to survive a genocide that is led by a Government that has absolutely no jurisdiction to permeate laws on behalf of the sovereign people. #indigenous#decolonize#genocide#firstnations#racism#colonization#aboriginal#australia -

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I am Dene. Very proud to see this exquisite display of Dene craftsmanship. An excerpt from the exhibit: "Dene women took great pride in their sewing and stove for excellence", it went on saying "it represented his hunting and trading abilities , well advertising his wife's skills as a tanner and seamstress"🙌🏽#dene#museumofscotland#museum#firstnations

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"Water is alive." If built, Kinder Morgan’s pipeline would cross 1,309 bodies of water, including the North and South Thompson Rivers, which are located in the Secwepemc Nation's traditional territory.So two weeks ago, Secwepemc Nation Tiny House Warriors built a tiny home to place in the path of this destructive pipeline in an effort to help protect these important sources of clean water, also home to wild salmon populations.

Woman warrior and water protector, Wabinoquay, who also goes by “Ginger”, stands on the side of water, community, and a clean future.

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"The Indonesian President, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, is desperate to keep hidden Indonesia’s dark, dirty secret – its brutal 50-year war in its easternmost provinces. Here are five things you should know about Indonesian rule in West Papua:

It is one of the world’s longest-running military occupations. Indonesia seized West Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea, in 1963, shortly after the Dutch colonists pulled out. Political parties were immediately banned, nascent Papuan nationalism crushed, and tens of thousands of troops, police and special forces flooded in. In 1969 a UN-supervised sham referendum was held, and just over a thousand hand-picked representatives were bribed, cajoled and threatened into voting in favour of Indonesian rule.

It’s possible that Indonesian rule constitutes a genocide. Although international media and NGOs have been nearly uniformly banned from the territory for decades, most observers estimate that over 100,000 native Papuans have been killed since the 1960s – at least 10 percent of the population. During a military campaign in the early 1980s, the Indonesian army ran under the slogan, “Let the rats run into the jungle so that the chickens can breed in the coop”. In practice, this meant wiping out Papuan villages and bringing in ethnic Indonesians to work on economic projects like Freeport’s giant Grasberg gold and copper mine, which has been accused of “ecocide” and dumps over 200,000 tonnes of tailings in the local river system every day.

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Vicki Hill, left, is comforted by Bernie Williams, back left, before testifying about her late mother Mary Jane Hill, during hearings at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, in Smithers, B.C., on Tuesday September 26, 2017. Her mother was found dead along Highway 16 near Prince Rupert in 1978 at the age of 31. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck @cdnpress#smithersbc#mmiw#firstnations#princerupert